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Tech that captures fish sound on laptop saves rare species 6 Feb 2013 | 05:57 pm
A transformatory fish project in Lake Victoria that captures fish sound on a laptop has assisted in investigating fish stocks in the Lake while avoiding exploitation of the fish through overfishing. ...
Fund introduces loans for egg incubators 6 Feb 2013 | 02:19 pm
The Youth Enterprise Development Fund has widened its financing portfolio by introducing financing for egg hatching incubators to eligible entrepreneurs, rubber stamping its resolve to create more job...
Scientists use digital camera to contain banana pest 6 Feb 2013 | 12:31 pm
Scientists in Uganda have devised a way of detecting pests embedded in the roots of bananas through use of of digital camera, a timely move meant to contain pests responsible for over 40 percent of yi...
Flower project roots for local consumption to grow sales 5 Feb 2013 | 04:13 pm
A novel project launched five years ago to encourage local consumption of flowers is returning impressive results, thanks in part to a growing middle class and heightened awareness, and is now cushion...
Western farmers to own cows thanks to Mumias 5 Feb 2013 | 01:04 pm
In a move meant to diversify its revenue streams and weather growing competition in the sugar industry, Sugar company Mumias Company Limited is planning to delve into the milk industry with plans to l...
Sleeping with chicken increases human diseases 1 Feb 2013 | 05:29 pm
Farmers living with chickens under their beds are increasingly exposing themselves to the fatal diseases transmitted from animals to humans which have increased 60 percent over the past decades, scien...
Yam farmers cut pests with planting technology 1 Feb 2013 | 03:12 pm
Yam farmers in Homa Bay county are using a simple technology to produce their own disease-free seed yams for planting which has so far raised production by an impressive 20 percent after years of endl...
Kenya edges closer to eradicating East Coast Fever 1 Feb 2013 | 10:59 am
The war on the deadly East Coast Fever is close to be won after Kenya recently launched a new highly improved vaccine to curb the disease responsible for over 1.1 million cattle deaths yearly. The vac...
Kenya uses technology to explore underground water 1 Feb 2013 | 10:23 am
An ambitious pilot project launched eight months ago in Nairobi to map groundwater water which would establish quantity and quality with the aim of exploiting the water in case of emergency like droug...
Farmers ignore lucrative global wonder crop 1 Feb 2013 | 10:14 am
Scientists conducting research on various ways of augmenting protein in peoples' diets have recommended the traditionally neglected rape seed oil, offering lessons to Kenya where the plant even though...
